Example sentences of "wish to be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish to be wholly responsible for my acts , to be master of my fate ; I shall make my own choice of ends , distance myself from my own reactions and learn to manipulate them like external events . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course , you 're entitled to have your own legal representative present , if you wish to be really formal about things . |
| 3 | I wish to be relatively uncontroversial about these definitions , although I realise the great philosophical problems involved in any description of I for instance.3 The indexical meaning is that which exists when we have ascribed referents to those discourse elements suggested by the symbolic meaning of a term . |
| 4 | Article 11 can hardly be said , therefore , to ‘ weaken ’ the Convention it allows States who wish to be more generous to a claimant than the minimum standards set out in the earlier articles to do so , but not for more than minimum standards to be imposed by a requesting State on a requested State . |
| 5 | This is partly through pupil behaviour forcing teachers to consider whether they can or wish to be merely amoral dispensers of knowledge and exam technique . |